Re: trouble getting fetchmail to start
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:46:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I'm running exim and fetchmail. I recently changed from using a dial-up
> connection to DSL. It's a wonderful change, but I'm having trouble getting
> fetchmail to start without my assistance. I'd appreciate any help.
>
> fetchmail was being started by my ip-up scripts, which activate when a dial
> up connection starts.
>
> My first thought was to create an init.d/script for fetchmail (I used the
> one for exim as a model). Then I ran .. (can't remember the name and I'm
> not on Debian right now) script to automatically put the "usual" links in
> rc?.d/, giving it a sequence number (25) that was higher than
> exim's. Initially I didn't have the right permissions, but I fixed them.
>
> It doesn't work, and it leaves no trace of why in the logs. fetchmail is
What's your config file look like? Have you tried putting in:
set syslog
in it and trying again? (if it's not in there already)
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